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12 ft storm surges as Hurricane Ian makes landfall in SW Florida

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Areas along Florida’s southwest coast have taken substantial damage from Hurricane Ian. | Image taken on September 28 by Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory.

On today’s show:

0:08 – Mitch Perry, (@MitchPerry18), Senior Reporter with the nonprofit newsroom The Florida Phoenix joins us to unpack the immediate impacts of Hurricane Ian.

0:30 – Brian Tang (@btangywx), associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at UAlbany discusses Hurricane Ian’s intensity—how it got so bad so fast, and other observable characteristics of the storm.